Scrapter nitens Kuhlmann

Kuhlmann, Michael & Friehs, Thyra, 2020, Nine new species and new records of euryglossiform Scrapter Lepeletier & Serville (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) from South Africa, European Journal of Taxonomy 647, pp. 1-33 : 18-19

Scrapter nitens Kuhlmann sp. nov.

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Diagnosis

The female of S. nitens Kuhlmann sp. nov. can be separated from all other species of this group by the combination of the following characters: clypeus almost flat ( Fig. 8B); scutum sparsely and coarsely punctate ( Fig. 8C); foretibia dominantly dark blackish-brown; stigma brown; apical margins of metasomal terga broadly yellowish-brown; metasomal terga between punctures smooth and shiny ( Fig. 8E). The male is unknown.

Etymology

The name comes from the Latin ‘ nitens ’, meaning ‘glossy’, and referiing to the shiny appearance of the species.

Material examined (1 specimen) Holotype

SOUTH AFRICA • ♀; 7 km NE of Steinkopf, roadside N7; 29°12′40″ S, 17°47′11″ E; alt. 970 m a.s.l.; 12 Sep. 2017; MK leg.; RCMK.

Description

Female

BODY LENGTH. 6.6 mm.

HEAD. Head slightly wider than long. Integument black, except part of mandibles dark reddish-brown. Face sparsely covered with long, greyish, erect hair ( Fig. 8B). Clypeus almost flat with relatively coarse and dense (i = 0.5–1.5 d) punctation, apically with slightly sparser punctation (i = 1,5–2,5 d); surface between punctures smooth and shiny ( Fig. 8B). Malar area medially narrow, almost linear. Antenna dorsally blackish-brown, ventrally yellowish-brown.

MESOSOMA. Integument black, tegula reddish-brown. Mesoscutal disc between punctures smooth and shiny; disc sparsely (i = 1.5–3 d) and coarsely punctate ( Fig. 8C). Metanotum slightly shorter than basal area of propodeum, apically with indistinct narrow carinate depression ( Fig. 8D). Propodeum basally only laterally broad and coarsely carinate ( Fig. 8D). Mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, mesepisternum and propodeum sparsely covered with short, greyish, erect hair ( Fig. 8A).

WINGS. Brownish; wing venation and stigma brown.

LEGS. Integument black to dark reddish-brown. Vestiture greyish-white; scopa greyish-white.

METASOMA. Integument black, apical margins of terga narrowly translucent yellowish to reddish-brown ( Fig. 8E). Disc of T1–T2 without hair; following terga with very short but increasingly more and longer hair; apical tergal hair bands missing on all terga ( Fig. 8E). Prepygidial and pygidial fimbriae yellowish-brown. T1 almost impunctate, T2– T4 very sparsely (i = 3–5 d) and finely (almost invisible) punctate; between punctures smooth and shiny; T2–T4 with polished and shiny apical tergal depression ( Fig. 8E).

Male

Unknown.

Distribution

Only known from the type locality NE of Steinkopf.

Floral hosts

Aizoaceae : Galenia sarcophylla .

Seasonal activity

September.